usb port & video stop working on occasion, recover upon reboot

Started after my last update, a few hundred updated packages, installed kernel 6.0.8-1.
After a few hours of normal work all usb ports stop working and at the same time playing video stops working as well. Recovers only upon reboot.
Booted old kernel 6.0.7-1 but it happens with it as well.
Never happened before that update.

What does your journal tell?

Execute “sudo journalctl --list-boots” to find the boot that resulted in a crash and then dump the log for that boot using the number on the start of the line of that boot and “sudo journalctl -b <number>”. Have a look at the end of that log.

You can also share that log using https://susepaste.org/ so others can help but better filter out information you like to remain private.

I found the culprit: the ibus-damon dies and all programs that are using it die with it.
ibus-1.5.27-2.1.x86_64 installed on 2022-09-07 but problem stared about the first week of November 2022.
The only ibus component installed after September was** ibus-lang-1.5.27-2.1.noarch** was installed 2022-11-08**.

**When this happened I started a new ibus-daemon from a terminal and all stared working once again; in the process list there was a zombie entry for the old one, saying “defunct”

Good catch!

Probably good to create a bug report on https://bugzilla.opensuse.org for this.